Aug. 24, 2013

Singer-songwriter Norah Jones pays tribute to jazz pianist Marian McPartland, who died at age 95; Jones recalls how she was affected in her youth and in her career by public radio show Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. MORE

Apr. 22, 2012

Norah Jones album Little Broken Hearts finds the singer-songwriter again contemplating the end of a relationship. MORE

Perfectionism has become Norah Jones's hallmark. It's what helped give ''Come Away With Me'' its preternatural sound -- no other musician in her early 20's has recently been so conversant with both Hank Williams and Hoagy Carmichael.

The 45th annual Grammy Awards belonged to Norah Jones, the 23-year-old singer and pianist whose album of thoughtful, jazz-tinged love songs, ''Come Away With Me,'' brought her the award for album of the year and best new artist in the ceremony last night at Madison Square Garden.

Norah Jones is just 23; most of her fans are at least a decade older. For months her songs have haunted the airwaves of adult-oriented radio; on the strength of constant touring, television appearances and heavy rotation in coffee shops, cocktail parties and other places where grown-ups gather, ''Come Away With Me'' has turned into the music industry surprise of the year.

Norah Jones, the most talked-about young pop-jazz singer to generate a blitz of publicity since Jane Monheit, is the complete package: a singer, pianist and songwriter whose sultry, laid-back style skips across genres without a trace of self-consciousness.